Jefferson County held its first annual Airport Day at the Jefferson County International Airport on Saturday, Aug. 3. According to Danny Millholand of The Production Alliance, 1,037 people attended …
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8/7/24
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The Port Townsend City Council voted Aug. 5 to schedule a public hearing to consider dissolution of the Fort Worden Public Development Authority (PDA), thus initiating a …
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By James Robinson
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8/7/24
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A 134-year-old former steam-powered tugboat was put up for public auction at the Port of Port Townsend on Monday, Aug. 5, but the auction ended without any bids.
The …
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By Alex Frick
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8/7/24
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Those attempting to access their landlines or the internet in northeastern Jefferson County got an unpleasant surprise on Friday, Aug. 2, when a fiber line was unintentionally …
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By Kirk Boxleitner
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8/7/24
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The Port Townsend Creative District is dealing with a recent rash of public art vandalism.
Mitzi Jo Gordon, manager of the Port Townsend Creative District, said the Tyler …
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By Kirk Boxleitner
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8/7/24
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Food Co-Op board shakeup
Cameron Jones took to social media to declare he’d been “unexpectedly removed” from the Port Townsend Food Co-op Board, amidst what he cited as …
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8/7/24
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Scarlet was in trouble.
The doe Jane Patrick had seen with her Mother’s Day fawns many times from her Port Townsend balcony was limping in the field across the …
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By Scott Doggett
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8/7/24
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The former chief financial officer for the Fort Worden Public Development Authority who was accused of first-degree theft in September 2019, was sentenced Aug. 2 in Jefferson …
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By James Robinson
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8/7/24
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A rare, Red-footed Booby put on quite a show for more than 50 Port Townsend birders Aug. 4, with sightings at the Marine Science Center building on the pier at Fort Worden …
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By James Robinson
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8/7/24
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An eclectic cultural combination of musicians, who only could have come together in Montreal, are treating The Palindrome to their distinctive sound, as Rainshadow Recording …
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By Kirk Boxleitner
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8/7/24
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Officials with the state Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) delivered the final Duckabush River citation to the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW) this month, …
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By James Robinson
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7/31/24
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The traditional lands of the S’Klallam, on the present-day beaches of Fort Worden State Park, welcomed tribal canoe families on Friday, July 26, as the landing served as …
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Special to The Leader
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7/31/24
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The Port Townsend City Council conducted interviews at City Hall on Tuesday, July 23 to determine who will temporarily fill Position 2 following the resignation of council …
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By Alex Frick
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7/31/24
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A Chimacum man faces nine months in jail and one year of probation after pleading guilty to a felony count of second degree assault with a deadly weapon and reckless …
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By James Robinson
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7/31/24
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Elementary teacher gets Fulbright
Christine Kiely, a teacher at Salish Coast Elementary, has received a Fulbright Teacher Exchange award to Brazil from the U.S. Department of State and the …
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7/31/24
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The Northwest Watershed Institute invited community members and elected officials to celebrate the Department of Natural Resources’ proposal to expand the Dabob Bay …
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By Kirk Boxleitner
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7/31/24
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A “fundraiser festival” has been organized by friends and neighbors to help a farmer purchase the farm where they have lived and worked for five years.
Laurae …
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BY Leader staff
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7/31/24
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Kira Mardikes’ artistry begins in the soil. From there, it vines its way through a myriad of mediums, blossoming into illustrations, comic book stories, murals, sips of …
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By Holly Erickson
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7/31/24
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Working as a ghostwriter isn’t generally a path to prominence, but for a recent retiree who’s made Quilcene her second home, ghostwriting scored her a named credit on a …
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By Kirk Boxleitner
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7/31/24
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